Card Technology articles from July 2005

Card Technology archives from July 2005

Now The Fun Begins.(enhancing Smart cards)
July 1, 2005... We've reached a happy turning point in the history of the smart card. For years, smart card vendors have been trying to convince issuers to adopt smart cards. Now we're entering a period in which the issuers are going to be trying to convince...

A "Clearer" Picture Of Traveler Security.
July 1, 2005... The U.S. government last month backed off of one deadline related to the use of smart card technology by travelers, and took a hard look at another smart card-related project that some legislators feel is not living up to expectations. The...

People On The Move.(Appointments)
July 1, 2005... Craig Bennett has been appointed CEO of the Asia/Pacific region of Welcome, a France-based provider of loyalty and payment software for smart cards. Bennett has been based in the region for 11 years, working for Misys PLC and SunGard Data...

DoCoMo Uses Mobile Wallet To Retain Customers.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... CEO Masao Nakamura says Japan's leading mobile phone service provider, NTT DoCoMo, has distributed more than 3 million phones with mobile wallet functionality and expects to hit its goal of 10 million by the end of its fiscal year in March...

A Card That Pays For Parking And A Double-Mocha Latte.(Duncan Parking Technologies Inc.)
July 1, 2005... Hong Kong showed that a card widely carried for paying mass transit fares could catch on-to some extent-among merchants. New Haven, a midsized U.S. city, is trying to show that merchants will also take to a smart card that motorists carry to...

Calendar.(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... September 13-15: Smartcards Expo 2005-New Delhi, India Organized by Electronics Today For more information, contact Manmeet Sabarwal at: Telephone: +91 22 26730869 Fax: +91 22 26730547 E-mail: electodayvsnl.net ...

Newswatch: Europe.(French bank introduced first smart cards)(Estonia's Identification Card)(test for contactless mobile payment )
July 1, 2005... France Moves To More Secure Smart Cards French banks, which in the early 1990s were the first to use smart cards to thwart counterfeiters, have begun to roll out new, more secure, smart card technology. Credit Mutuel, one of the country's...

T-Mobile Hires Gemplus To Develop A New SIM Platform.(subscriber identity module)
July 1, 2005... Germany-based T-Mobile Group has hired France-based smart card vendor Gemplus to develop a new SIM card operating system. The software platform will be used on SIMs issued by all of T-Mobile's wholly owned operators in Europe and possibly...

How Chase Is Introducing Contactless Payment To Consumers.(Chase Bank USA introduced blink card)
July 1, 2005... A marketing blitz was unleashed in the U.S. city of Atlanta last month as Chase Bank USA introduced its contactless payment card. This is the first full-scale rollout of the much-ballyhooed concept of allowing consumers to pay just by...

Campaign Highlights Speed and Ease of Use.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Launching a new product, especially one that involves a new technology, isn't something to do half-heartedly. Perhaps that's why Chase Bank USA is using a marketing campaign that includes television, radio, print and outdoor advertising, and...

Is Europe Ready For A Standard National ID?(identification card)
July 1, 2005... National ID card projects in Europe are gaining momentum and government officials have been taking tentative steps toward making their cards work together. According to one European Union official, the moves toward interoperability of the...

French Port Authority Issues Smart Cards.
July 1, 2005... The Port Authority of Marseille, France, plans to begin rolling out smart cards by the end of the year to secure its facilities and computer network, says Jacques Parent, an information systems security manager for the port. The large...

ID Briefs: More Secure Bank Cards Could Mean More ID Theft.(identity)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Identity fraud will increase as a result of the rollout by British banks the past few years of credit and debit cards with fraud-busting smart cards chips, predicts fraud-prevention expert Beverly Young. Young, an executive with CIFAS, a UK...

SIM Card Demand Soars In The Americas.(Global System for Mobile Communications)(Subscriber Identity Module)
July 1, 2005... Mobile phones in North and South America traditionally have not contained SIM cards. But that is changing in a big way as more mobile operators in the Americas switch to GSM technology. Most operators are using the subscriber identity...

A Three Way Race.(smart cards)
July 1, 2005... QUICK READ There is no standard operating system for smart cards to compare with Microsoft Windows in the PC world. Most smart cards still use proprietary operating systems, but each is unique to the smart card vendor that creates it....

Profiting from the Growth.(smart cards sales in market)
July 1, 2005... QUICK READ The smart card industry returned to growth and profit last year, as leaner vendors fed soaring demand. Growth is expected to slow this year, and commodity pricing and stiff competition will put pressure on vendors' bottom lines....

SIM Suppliers: The Top Ten.(Subscriber Identity Module )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... 2004 Shipments (millions of units)* 1 Axalto (France) 257 2 Gemplus (France) 255.4 3 Giesecke & Devrient (Germany) 168.3 4 Orga (Germany) 70 5...

A Big Customer: China Mobile's SIM purchases for Q1 2005.*.(Subscriber Identity Module )(first quarter)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Vendor No. of SIM cards sold(in millions) 16K** 32K 64K Totals Eastcom 11.8 5.2 0.2 17.2 Axalto 5.7 4.5 0.6 10.8 Datang 5.8 1.4...

Cheap Cards In China: SIMs to be purchased by mobile network operator China Unicom for delivery during a roughly six-month period, starting May 2005.(Subscriber Identity Module )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... (part 1 of 4) Vendor and No. of cards (in millions of units)* Memory size** Price (US$)*** Watchdata Tianyu/Sagem 16K $0.61 6.5 7.65 32K $0.74 2.2 ...

How Smart Card Vendors Rank By Unit Shipments.(Illustration)
July 1, 2005... In millions of units Smart cards shipped (units in millions, including modules) Card vendor, base MICROPROCESSOR 2004 2003 % change Axalto, France ...

How Card Vendors Rank By Revenue.(Illustration)
July 1, 2005... In millions of euros, unless U.S. dollars are indicated China Mobile's SIM purchases for Q1 2005.* 2004 2003 % change Gemplus, France 865 749.2 ...

Chip Card Shipments By Segment.(Illustration)
July 1, 2005... Units in millions (part 1 of 2) MICROPROCESSOR MICROPROCESSOR 2004 Change 2005 Change from 2003 projection...

Made In China: A Budding Hub For SIM Supply?(Subscriber identity module)
July 1, 2005... China swallowed more than a third of the SIM cards produced worldwide last year-along with the profit margins of many of the vendors doing business there. But the Chinese SIM market, though often cutthroat in its pricing, is too big to...

Advertising Index.(Directory)
July 1, 2005... Collis BV 19 www.collis.nl/emv Cryptography Research inside front cover www.cryptography.com/dpa Datacard Group inside back cover www.datacard.com/maxsysct Datastrip ...

Contact Our Advertising Sales Representatives.(Directory)
July 1, 2005... United States and Canada Jim Baker phone 312 983 6179 fax 312 913 1334 Europe & Asia Bernard Pingree Jean-Charles Abeille phone + 33 (01) 46 43 00 66 fax + 33 (01) 46 43 01 34 bernard.pingreeinfopac.fr icabeilleinfopac.fr ...

A Hotly Competitive Market: Vendors Vie For China's Huge SIM Market.(Subscriber Identity Module )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... China's SIM card market consumed an estimated 335 million cards last year, nearly a third of the worldwide total. What happens in this massive market increasingly affects SIM prices around the world. Card Technology has obtained tender data for...